A driving circuit of a liquid crystal display device including a first insulating substrate on which a plurality of signal lines and a plurality of scan lines are disposed, and pixel transistors made of thin film transistors are disposed in matrix at intersection points of those lines; a second insulating substrate opposite to the first insulating substrate; and a liquid crystal held between the first and second insulating substrates, in which the driving circuit is disposed on the first insulating substrate; each of clock lines or base portions of the clock lines for supplying clock signals to the driving circuit is made of a two-layer structure of the same wiring material as a gate electrode of the thin film transistor and the same wiring material as a source electrode or drain electrode of the thin film transistor; and a wiring line crossing the clock lines or the base portions of the clock lines is made of a wiring line in the same layer as a black matrix covering the pixel transistors.
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1. A semiconductor device comprising: a substrate having at least one driving circuit comprising a plurality of thin film transistors, clock lines for supplying clock signals to the driving circuit, at least one wiring line crossing the clock lines, a first insulating film and a second insulating film, wherein each of the clock lines or each of base portions of the clock lines is made of a two-layer structure, a lower layer of said two-layer structure comprising the same wiring material as gate electrodes of the thin film transistors, and an upper layer of said two-layer structure comprising the same wiring material as source and drain electrodes of the thin film transistors, wherein said wiring line is formed over the first and second insulating films, wherein said upper layer is formed between the first and second insulating films, and wherein said lower layer extends in a same direction as said upper layer.
2. A device according to claim 1 , wherein an interval between adjacent ones of the clock lines is wider than a width of each of the clock lines.
3. A device according to claim 1 , wherein said clock lines are connected to a shift register circuit in the driving circuit.
4. A device according to claim 1 , further comprising a pixel portion comprising a plurality of thin film transistors on said substrate.
5. A device according to claim 1 , wherein said wiring line formed over the upper layer is connected to the upper layer.
6. A device according to claim 1 , further comprising black matrices over the thin film transistors, wherein said wiring line is made of the same layer as the black matrices.
7. A semiconductor device comprising: a substrate having at least one driving circuit comprising a plurality of thin film transistors, clock lines for supplying clock signals to the driving circuit, at least one wiring line crossing the clock lines, a first insulating film and a second insulating film, wherein each of the clock lines or each of base portions of the clock lines is made of a two-layer structure, a lower layer of said two-layer structure comprising the same wiring material as gate electrodes of the thin film transistors, and an upper layer of said two-layer structure comprising the same wiring material as source and drain electrodes of the thin film transistors, wherein said wiring line is formed over the first and second insulating films, wherein said upper layer is formed between the first and second insulating films, and wherein the second insulating film is thicker than the first insulating film.
8. A device according to claim 7 , wherein an interval between adjacent ones of the clock lines is wider than a width of each of the clock lines.
9. A device according to claim 7 , wherein said clock lines are connected to a shift register circuit in the driving circuit.
10. A device according to claim 7 , further comprising a pixel portion comprising a plurality of thin film transistors on said substrate.
11. A device according to claim 7 , wherein said wiring line formed over the upper layer is connected to the upper layer.
12. A device according to claim 7 , wherein said lower layer extends in a same direction as said upper layer.
13. A device according to claim 7 , further comprising black matrices over the thin film transistors, wherein said wiring line is made of the same layer as the black matrices.
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August 15, 2001
July 18, 2006
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